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| View Poll Results: What arcade video games did you play in the 80's? | |||
| Donkey Kong {& junior} |     | 3 | 30.00% |
| Pac Man {& ms. Pac Man} |    | 5 | 50.00% |
| Mario Brothers |    | 2 | 20.00% |
| Asteroids |    | 5 | 50.00% |
| Space Invaders |    | 4 | 40.00% |
| Centipede |    | 4 | 40.00% |
| Galaxian/Galaga | | 4 | 40.00% |
| Defender | | 4 | 40.00% |
| Zaxxon | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Qix | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Tetris | | 2 | 20.00% |
| Gauntlet | | 2 | 20.00% |
| Joust | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Tempest | | 2 | 20.00% |
| Mortal Kombat | | 0 | 0% |
| Frogger | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Pole Position | | 4 | 40.00% |
| Spyhunter | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Q bert | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Dig Dug | | 3 | 30.00% |
| Black Widow | | 1 | 10.00% |
| Wizard of Wor | | 2 | 20.00% |
| 1942 | | 4 | 40.00% |
| Street Fighter | | 1 | 10.00% |
| Gyruss | | 1 | 10.00% |
| Xevious | | 1 | 10.00% |
| Sea Wolf | | 0 | 0% |
| Battlezone | | 2 | 20.00% |
| SiniStarr | | 2 | 20.00% |
| Other? | | 1 | 10.00% |
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05-18-2008, 12:16 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: British Columbia
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| What arcade games did you play back in the 80's? I was sitting around on friday, day off with not much to do {the WW2 site was offline!!  } so I went to check out the arcade in the plaza, they have one of those new multi-game video arcades. It was like taking a trip down memory lane, back to the 80's when I used to waste my pocket money plugging quarters into the local machine!The best part was that this machine had a glitch, every time you croaked it gave you another credit.  I must have played that sucker for hours.... What games did everyone play way back when? ***Multiple choice***
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05-18-2008, 12:36 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| DIG DUG!!!
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05-18-2008, 01:20 AM
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05-18-2008, 04:49 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
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| love defender have got it for my PSP
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05-18-2008, 06:17 AM
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Arcade games in Australia in the early 80's? Pac-Man and Space Invaders. | |
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05-18-2008, 08:07 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Frogger and Q Bert fricken rule!!! I still have my Atari and Frogger and Q Bert as well as Space Invaders and Pac Man for it.
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05-18-2008, 08:38 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Did anyone here have the old Sega Master system, with that most kick arse of games, Alex Kidd. Man those were the days!
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05-18-2008, 11:19 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Ah the memories. There was a couple in the airmen's club at Lakenheath that were really fun, Out Run and Afterburner.
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05-18-2008, 03:54 PM
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| yep, afterburner, had that one on my old AMIGA. That was some computer. I only sold it last year, about 18 years old and still worked like a dream.
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05-18-2008, 06:43 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007
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| Frogger? Is that the same game depicted in a Sienfeld episode? George Kostanza had to get the game across the street with an auxiliary power supply, engineered by 'Slippery Pete' (Peter Stormare of 'Fargo' fame).  Seinfeld: The Frogger Episode Cast Members - TV.com |
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05-18-2008, 11:28 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Defender rules!! Man I wasted some serious money riding my motorcycle up to the 7-11 to play that game. And Tempest!!! And my favorite because of the subwoofer in the machine, Space Duel. YouTube - williams defender arcade game YouTube - Let's Play Tempest [1980] Classic Arcade Shooting Video Game YouTube - Space Duel [1980] Classic Arcade Video Games MAME ROMs
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05-19-2008, 05:30 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005
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| Aarh man I can hardly remember the names of those games, but heck I hardly ever played such machines. I had a Nintendo 64 which I used to play all sorts of games on.. Anyhow I was always more of an outdoors person.
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05-19-2008, 06:13 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| The local 7-11 store was our arcade till we were old enough to get to the Mall.... Asteroids, Space Invaders and Dragons Lair were the ones we played in the early 80's....
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05-19-2008, 03:42 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Plymouth
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 | I'm too young for the early generation of arcade games, I grew up on Street Fighter 2, Daytona USA, Sega Rally etc
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05-19-2008, 04:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ankeny, Iowa
Posts: 1,411
| Spyhunter was a favorite of mine.
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